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7 reasons why robotics companies should be using simulators
Ricardo Téllez
28 Dec 2015
During my long experience at Pal Robotics developing humanoid robots, I learned just how much a good simulator can help speed up the development and maintenance processes of robot building. To my su...
Robot Race to Hawaii Contest
Ricardo Téllez
24 Nov 2015
The Robot Race to Hawaii is a robotics contest where participants program a humanoid Nao robot to run a 10-meter race in the shortest time possible. The whole competition is run in a Webots simula...
The Construct: Robot simulations in the cloud
Ricardo Téllez
20 Oct 2015
The Construct is a Barcelona based startup created to simplify the simulation of robots. The goal is to allow anybody to simulate complex robots and environments with minimal knowledge, without having...
Gazebo gets better at flying and diving
Open Source Robotics Foundation
15 Jun 2015
As another result of the exciting DARPA Robotics Challenge, Gazebo has improved its capabilities in the aeronautics and hydrodynamics fields. We expect these changes to benefit the way UAVs and UUVs a...
Simulating in MapleSim
Clearpath Robotics
19 May 2015
By Ilia Baranov
Robots are expensive and they usually depend on batteries. What if you want to run an experiment with 100 robots, running for 10 hours? To help answer this question, ROS has built ...
Would you feel sorry for a simulated robot? Study shows people empathize more with the real thing
In the future, robots will be in our daily lives: homes, schools, offices, factories, even restaurants. The field of social robotics looks at how these robots can interact with people socially, just l...
Gzweb for mobile platforms
Open Source Robotics Foundation
05 May 2014
Gzweb Mobile from OSRF on Vimeo.
During her Gnome Outreach Program for Women internship with OSRF, Louise Poubel made Gzweb work on mobile platforms by designing a mobile-friendly interface and imp...
CloudSim-Ed: A robotics MOOC prototype
Open Source Robotics Foundation
30 Apr 2014
CloudSim-Ed from OSRF.
During her Gnome Outreach Program for Women internship with OSRF, Ana Marian Pedro worked on CloudSim-Ed a prototype for a massive open online robotics course built with Goog...
ROS 101: Drive a Husky!
Clearpath Robotics
21 Mar 2014
In the previous ROS 101 post, we showed how easy it is to get ROS going inside a virtual machine, publish topics and subscribe to them. If you haven’t had a chance to check the out all the previous...
ShanghAI Lectures: Wenwei Yu “A Simulation Study on Reflexive Responses during Walking”
Nathan Labhart
30 Jan 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-17
In this guest lecture, Wenwei Yu from Chiba University, Japan, introduces his approach to assistive technology and talks about (simulation) experime...
Real-time heart beat simulator visualizes pulsation and disease on a Laptop PC
DigInfo TV
05 Nov 2012
This simulator can represent the complex pulsation of the heart. It is being developed by a group including members from National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center and Riken.
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